TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downs,Laura Lee
AU  - Gerson,Stéphane
TI  - Why France?: American historians reflect on an enduring fascination 
SN  - 9780801464874
AV  - DC36 .W494 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Historians
KW  - United States
KW  - Americans
KW  - France
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; Medievalist and Francophile despite himself; John W. Baldwin --; A mid-Atlantic identity; Robert O. Paxton --; Tough love for France; Herman Lebovics --; Fantasy meets reality : a Midwesterner goes to Paris; Lynn Hunt --; Défense d'afficher --; / Steven Laurence Kaplan --; France for Belgium; Gabrielle M. Spiegel --; Why Paris?; Barbara B. Diefendorf --; Catholic connections, Jewish relations, French religion; Thomas Kselman --; Europe without personal angst; Jan Goldstein --; France, a political romance; Edward Berenson --; Choosing history, discovering France; Herrick Chapman --; An African American in Paris; Tyler Stovall --; Writing at the margins; Leonard V. Smith --; It's not about France; Ken Alder --; Pilgrim's progress : from suburban Canada to Paris (via Montreal, Tokyo, and Tehran); Clare Haru Crowston --; Between Douai and the U.S.A.; Todd Shepard; 2; b
N2  - France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted quite the same hold on the American historical imagination, particularly in the post-1945 era. To gain a fresh perspective on this passionate relationship, Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson commissioned a diverse array of historians to write autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past. In addition to the essays, Why France? includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and an afterword by one of France's most distinguished historians, Roger Chartier. Taken together, these essays provide a rich and thought-provoking portrait of France, the Franco-American relationship, and a half-century of American intellectual life, viewed through the lens of the best scholarship on France. Contributors: Ken Alder, Northwestern University; John W. Baldwin, The Johns Hopkins University; Edward Berenson, New York University; Herrick Chapman, New York University; Roger Chartier, Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales; Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University; Laura Lee Downs, Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales; Stéphane Gerson, New York University; Jan Goldstein, The University of Chicago; Lynn Hunt, UCLA; Steven Kaplan, Cornell University; Thomas Kselman, Notre Dame University; Herman Lebovics, SUNY Stony Brook; Robert Paxton, Columbia University; Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins University; Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College; Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University; Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley
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